“You know, we have a democracy,” Harris, flanked by Democrat members of the committee, began.” There should not be tyranny of the majority. We have a democracy, and there has not been a fair process in place from the beginning on this. It should not be about raw power influencing the outcome of a decision about that is about not only a statement about what we hold as being precious and important about our system of justice, but who will sit for a lifetime on the United States Supreme Court.”

Harris, a 2020 hopeful, continued angerly: “This has been about raw power, seeing that in display this morning, we’ve been seeing it from this process since the beginning. … This is a failure of this body to do what it has always said it is about, which is be deliberative.”

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